Metadata for Timers

[Mattchewone]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm always frustrated when we have multiple timers being created, and it's unclear in the UI which is related to what part of the flow. We have a resettable timer and an overall timer, and when several timers get created, it can be tricky to see whether the right one was created or it was part of the loop and the first timer just re-created

Describe the solution you'd like A way to add metadata to the Timer. Say adding a name or something that would help readability in the UI.

Current

Timer 37()
...
Timer 41()

Suggested

Timer 37() SubscriptionTimer
...
Timer 41() UserCancelTimer

[yiminc]

Would it work for you if the UI shows the duration of the timer?

[yeshwanthPentakota]

The duration of the timer helps us for sure. But there could be a number of timers in a workflow and having a human-readable text next to it might be more useful.

[calum-stripe]

just wanted to +1 this feature request. We have lots of teams using Temporal and we are constantly asked about what timers do what and which ones are specific ones.

[alrz]

Can we do the same for child workflows? I'd love to tag workflows instead of creating one per each for a cleaner timeline view in UI.